veer

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veer¹

(vîr)

v. veered, veer·ing, veers

v.intr.

a. To turn aside from a course or established direction; swerve: veered to the left to avoid a pothole.

b. To deviate from a purpose, behavior, or previous pattern: "a sequence of adventures that veered between tragedy and bleak farce" (Anthony Haden-Guest). See Synonyms at swerve.

2. To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.

3. Nautical To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.

v.tr.

1. To alter the direction of; turn: veered the car sharply to the left.

2. Nautical To change the course of (a ship) by turning the stern windward.

A change in direction; a swerve.

[French virer, from Old French.]

veer²

(vîr)

tr.v. veered, veer·ing, veers Nautical

To let out or release (a line or an anchor train).

[Middle English veren, from Middle Dutch vieren; see per in Indo-European roots.]

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veer

(vɪə)

1. to alter direction (of); swing around

2. (intr) to change from one position, opinion, etc, to another

3. (Physical Geography) (of the wind) to change direction clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern

4. (Nautical Terms) nautical to blow from a direction nearer the stern. Compare haul ⁵

5. (Nautical Terms) nautical to steer (a vessel) off the wind

a change of course or direction

[C16: from Old French virer, probably of Celtic origin; compare Welsh gwyro to diverge]

veer

(vɪə)

(Nautical Terms) (tr; often foll by out or away) nautical to slacken or pay out (cable or chain)

[C16: from Dutch vieren, from Old High German fieren to give direction]

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veer

(vɪər)

v.i.

1. to change direction or turn aside; shift or change from one course, position, etc., to another.

2. (of the wind)

a. to change direction clockwise (opposed to back).

b. Naut. to shift to a direction more nearly astern (opposed to haul).

v.t.

3. to alter the direction of; turn.

4. to turn (a vessel) away from the wind.

5. a change of position, course, etc.

[1575–85; < Middle French virer to turn « Latin vibrāre; see vibrate]

veer

Past participle: veered
Gerund: veering

Imperative
veer
veer

Present
I veer
you veer
he/she/it veers
we veer
you veer
they veer

Preterite
I veered
you veered
he/she/it veered
we veered
you veered
they veered

Present Continuous
I am veering
you are veering
he/she/it is veering
we are veering
you are veering
they are veering

Present Perfect
I have veered
you have veered
he/she/it has veered
we have veered
you have veered
they have veered

Past Continuous
I was veering
you were veering
he/she/it was veering
we were veering
you were veering
they were veering

Past Perfect
I had veered
you had veered
he/she/it had veered
we had veered
you had veered
they had veered

Future
I will veer
you will veer
he/she/it will veer
we will veer
you will veer
they will veer

Future Perfect
I will have veered
you will have veered
he/she/it will have veered
we will have veered
you will have veered
they will have veered

Future Continuous
I will be veering
you will be veering
he/she/it will be veering
we will be veering
you will be veering
they will be veering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been veering
you have been veering
he/she/it has been veering
we have been veering
you have been veering
they have been veering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been veering
you will have been veering
he/she/it will have been veering
we will have been veering
you will have been veering
they will have been veering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been veering
you had been veering
he/she/it had been veering
we had been veering
you had been veering
they had been veering

Conditional
I would veer
you would veer
he/she/it would veer
we would veer
you would veer
they would veer

Past Conditional
I would have veered
you would have veered
he/she/it would have veered
we would have veered
you would have veered
they would have veered

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Verb 1. [画像:veer - turn sharply]veer - turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, curve, cut

turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs"

peel off - leave a formation

yaw - swerve off course momentarily; "the ship yawed when the huge waves hit it"

2. [画像:veer - shift to a clockwise direction]veer - shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered"

change over, shift, switch - make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched"

back - shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"

veer

verb change direction, turn, swerve, shift, sheer, tack, be deflected, change course small potholes which tend to make the car veer to one side or the other

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veer

verb

1. To turn aside sharply from a straight course:

chop, cut, sheer, skew, slue, swerve.

Nautical: yaw.

2. To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct:

depart, deviate, digress, diverge, stray, swerve.

Archaic: err.

3. To change the direction or course of:

avert, deflect, deviate, divert, pivot, shift, swing, turn.

Translations

يَنْحَرِف، يُغَيِّر الأتِّجاه

točit se

svinge

virer

irány: irányt változtat

breyta um stefnu; snúast

girare girare di 180 gradi

mestis į šonąstaiga pasukti

spēji mainīt virzienu

dreie av svinge

stočiť sa

sapmakyön değiştirmek

突然改变方向

veer

[vɪəʳ] VI (also to veer round) [ship] → virar ; [car] → girar, torcer ; [wind] → cambiar de dirección, rolar (Met, Naut) (fig) → cambiar (de rumbo)
the car veered off the road → el coche se salió de la carretera
the wind veered to the east → el viento cambió hacia el este, el viento roló al este
the country has veered to the left → el país ha dado un giro hacia or a la izquierda
it veers from one extreme to the other → oscila desde un extremo al otro
people are veering round to our point of view → la gente está empezando a aceptar nuestro criterio

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

veer

[ˈvɪə^r] vi

[wind] → tourner

to veer off [car, bus, plane, ship] → dévier
to veer off course → dévier de sa trajectoire
to veer off to one side → dévier d'un côté

veer

vi (wind) → (sich) drehen (im Uhrzeigersinn) → (to nach); (ship) → abdrehen ; (car) → ausscheren ; (road) → scharf abbiegen, abknicken ; the ship veered round → das Schiff drehte ab; the road veered to the left → die Straße machte eine scharfe Linkskurve ; the car veered to the left → das Auto scherte nach links aus; the car veered off the road → das Auto kam von der Straße ab; the driver was forced to veer sharply → der Fahrer musste plötzlich das Steuer herumreißen; to veer off course → vom Kurs abkommen ; it veers from one extreme to the other → es schwankt zwischen zwei Extremen ; he veered round to my point of view → er ist auf meine Richtung umgeschwenkt ; he veered away from the subject → er kam (völlig) vom Thema ab; the country has veered to the right under Thatcher → das Land ist unter Thatcher nach rechts geschwenkt

n (of wind) → Drehung f; (of ship, fig: in policy) → Kurswechsel m; (of car) → Ausscheren nt; (of road) → Knick m; a veer to the left politically → ein politischer Ruck nach links

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

veer

[vɪəʳ] vi (ship, car) → virare ; (wind) → girare
wind veering westerly at times → vento con tendenza a provenire da occidente
the country has veered to the left → il paese ha fatto una svolta a sinistra
the conversation veered round to politics → la conversazione si è spostata sulla politica

veer

(viə) verb

to change direction suddenly. The car veered across the road to avoid hitting a small boy. draai, van rigting verander يَنْحَرِف، يُغَيِّر الأتِّجاه променям посоката си guinar točit se sich drehen svinge αλλάζω κατεύθυνση / στρίβω απότομα virar suunda muutma تغییر جهت دادن kääntyä virer לְשַנוֹת כִּיווּן दिशा बदलना okrenuti se, promijeniti smjer irányt változtat membelok, membanting stir breyta um stefnu; snúast (cambiare direzione) 向きを変える 방향(진로)을 바꾸다 staiga pasukti, mestis į šoną spēji mainīt virzienu berubah arah van koers veranderen dreie av, svinge skręcić nagle, odbić guinar a vira делать вираж stočiť sa spremeniti smer promeniti pravac svänga undan, gira หันเห yön değiştirmek, sapmak 突然改變方向 змінювати напрям اچانک مڑنا thay đổi hướng đi 突然改变方向

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Yet when we bale our bowline and veer the sheet our lives will hang upon the breach remaining blocked.

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When the heat-cloud sucks the tempest, when the slivered pine-trees fall, When the blinding, blaring rain-squalls lash and veer; Through the war-gongs of the thunder rings a voice more loud than all-- It is Fear, O Little Hunter, it is Fear!

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My well-remembered experience has convinced me that, in that corner of the ocean, once the wind has got to the northward of west (as it did on the 20th, taking the British fleet aback), appearances of westerly weather go for nothing, and that it is infinitely more likely to veer right round to the east than to shift back again.

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She didn't veer to the north or anywhere else, but bore down on us rapidly.

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"Besides, my friends, unless I am mistaken, the wind has a slight tendency to veer a little more to the eastward, and we must not lose such an opportunity."

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His tendency to veer about from one subject to another; his habit of keeping his tongue perpetually going, so long as there was anybody, no matter whom, within reach of the sound of his voice; his comical want of all dignity and reserve with his servants, promised, in appearance, much, and performed in reality nothing.

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Reversal of the Situation is a change by which the action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity.

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And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered.

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On the 4th, however, the sea became more calm, and the storm lessened its violence; the wind veered southward, and was once more favourable.

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They veers so far from time and place that, although most of them related to our country and epoch, I could not imagine anything approximate from them; and Hawthorne himself seemed a remote and impalpable agency, rather than a person whom one might actually meet, as not long afterward happened with me.

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Ruth succeeded in veering right and left and right again, and in running the narrow passage between table and bed to Martin's side; but Arthur veered too wide and fetched up with clatter and bang of pots and pans in the corner where Martin did his cooking.

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By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home; upon which our master ordered out the sheet-anchor, so that we rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bitter end.

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